F. E. Zeuner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

F. E. Zeuner

German palaeontologist and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1905

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1963

Profession: paleontologist, entomologist, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About F. E. Zeuner

  • Frederick Everard Zeuner, FZS (8 March 1905 – 5 November 1963) was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who was a contemporary of Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London.
  • Zeuner proposed a detailed scheme of correlation and dating of European climatic and prehistoric cultural events on the basis of Milankovitch cycles.Zeuner was born in Berlin, Germany, and received his Ph.D.
  • from the University of Breslau in 1927.
  • After working as a Privatdozent at the University of Breslau from 1927-1930 and a lecturer in geology at the University of Freiburg from 1931-34 he emigrated to England where he worked as a research associate at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1934-36.
  • Zeuner was lecturer in geochronology at the University of London's Institute of Archaeology from 1936 to 1945 and received his D.
  • Sc.
  • from the university in 1942.
  • From 1946 to 1963 he was professor and head of environmental archaeology at the University of London's Institute of Archaeology, where postgraduate students included Andrée Rosenfeld.
  • He was a member of the Geologische Vereinigung in Germany and was admitted to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (1952).
  • He was also a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

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